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Man pulls a Glock on power company, police say

Leonard Sanders

Think you get upset when the electricity goes down?

Savannah-Chatham metro police arrested a 29-year-old Savannah man after he allegedly pulled a Glock semiautomatic pistol on three power company workers who were planning to cut his electricity for line work.

According to a police report, three power company workers say Leonard Sanders – who lives on Savannah’s eastside, in the 100 block of Hampstead Avenue, near White Bluff Road – pointed a gun at them when they told him they’d have to cut his electricity. A tree limb had fallen on a power line in his backyard.

Sanders denied pointing the gun. He said he asked the workers to wait a little while before cutting his power but that they told him they had other jobs to get to and turned it off anyway.

Sanders told officers the only gun he had was a shotgun in his bedroom. Police searched his truck and found a handgun holster. He said he didn’t own a gun that fit it. They searched his bedroom and allegedly found a rifle, as well as the shot gun and an assault rifle clip.

Officer Richard Wiggins wrote in the report that as he was searching Sanders’ closet, he was keeping a close eye on Sanders, who sat down on his bed. That’s when Wiggins says he he saw the handle of a compact handgun sticking out from between Sanders’ mattress and box spring.

After a tense moment in which Sanders allegedly was trying to hide the gun and Wiggins was pulling it from the bed and pushing Sanders away, he was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.He was released from the Chatham County jail Wednesday on a $4,600 bond. His next court date is Nov. 8.